[Qgis-developer] Warning - shapefile corruption on 2.16/master and how to recover

[Even Rouault]

Le vendredi 16 septembre 2016 03:08:37, Nyall Dawson a écrit :
> Unfortunately a fairly nasty regression has slipped in to 2.16 and is
> still present on master. This results in shapefile corruption in
> certain circumstances.

I've commited in GDAL trunk and 2.1 branch a fix that revises the way repacking 
of shapefiles is done, so as to use in-place rewrite of the already opened file 
rather than trying to remove the temporary copies on top of them, which was 
prone to issues with files being locked elsewhere. From my tests this solve the 
issues I could reproduce in http://hub.qgis.org/issues/15570 and 
http://hub.qgis.org/issues/15393 and I'm reasonably confident this is a robust 
fix for other similar cases. Anyway, testing by others to confirm would be 
appreciated.

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